Monday is a day off from school, but for four Norwich Free Academy students, it’s going to be among the most educational days of their lives.

On Sunday morning, four officers from NFA’s Young Voters’ Society will travel to Washington D.C. with history teacher Laura Binder to attend President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

“It’s the best thing ever. You’re watching our president get sworn in. There’s nothing better. Sometimes, I think my mom is more excited than I am,” said senior Hannah Spicer, 17, of Preston.

The group will fly out of Bradley International Airport at 6:20 a.m. Sunday and returns to Connecticut just after 11 p.m. Monday.

Binder said the students wrote a letter to NFA Head of School David Klein in late December requesting permission for the trip, and it was approved just days later.

The whirlwind trip is part a yearlong effort to get MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program to broadcast from NFA. Students are planning a pitch that includes a video of political events held on campus, capped off by footage from the National Mall during Obama’s swearing-in.

“It’s our pitch to them, showing that we’re trying to get younger people involved in politics,” said Patrick Kudej, 17. “I’ve already been filming all the events so far this year, and this will be an instrumental part of that.”

But even if the network’s morning talk show doesn’t come to Norwich, the teens traveling to the nation’s capital plan to market the experience on campus in the hopes of growing their club.

“Our hope is with all the pictures and video we bring back, we can stimulate the Young Voters’ Society, and as a byproduct of that, increase political interest on campus for years to come,” said senior Justin Morin, the club’s president.

A registered Republican, Morin said his political persuasion won’t deter him from enjoying the festivities surrounding the start of Obama’s second term.

“Just because I don’t agree with all of his policies, America has spoken. I think the most important thing going forward is we have the bipartisanship and compromise to get stuff done,” he said.

Binder, who refuses to divulge her political affiliation to students, said she’s eager to take part in the inauguration ceremony.

“It’s going to be exciting for me to see the kids so excited,” she said. “We have kids from so many different backgrounds, yet they’re able to coexist and work together and have real good discussions on the issues, even if they disagree.”

Junior Meghan Levallee, 17, is also going to Washington D.C. with the club.

“To be there in the center of it all and see the whole process culminate will be pretty cool,” Morin said.